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Handball   /hˈændbˌɔl/   Listen
Handball

noun
1.
A small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball.
2.
A game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands.



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"Handball" Quotes from Famous Books



... markets every Sunday and holiday, and minstrels and jugglers thronged; and stringent laws were passed to prevent "improper and prohibited sports within the churchyard, as, for example, wrestling, football, handball under penalty of twopence forfeit." Here church ales were kept with much festivity, dancing, and merry-making; and here sometimes doles were distributed on the tombstones of parochial benefactors, and even bread and cheese scrambled for, ...
— English Villages • P. H. Ditchfield


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